Continuing on Monday’s mod_perl security update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat announced one new security update this morning.
RHSA-2007:0396 Low: mod_perl security update
This security update addresses one vulnerability in the mod_perl packages for Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux 4. A remote attacker requesting a carefully crafted URI can cause [...]

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Sun Microsystems announced a new security vulnerability affecting BIND for Solaris 10 on SPARC and X86 platforms. A vulnerability in DNSSEC could allow an attacker to cause the BIND server process to exit resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS)(CVE-2007-0494). Although Sun has made patches available, it is advisable to run BIND without [...]

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If you are using your Cisco Catalyst switches to insert DHCP Option 82 information and you are also using your Cisco routers as DHCP relay-agents (via ‘ip helper-address’), you’ll notice right away that your Option 82 enabled DHCP requests are not being forwarded by your routers.
As a security measure, Cisco IOS will not forward DHCP [...]

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Red Hat announced one new security update this morning.
RHSA-2007:0486 Moderate: mod_perl security update
This update fixes one vulnerability in the mod_perl package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. An attacker can use a request a carefully constructed URI from a server employing the Apache::PerlRun module to cause resource consumption resulting in a Denial of Service [...]

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Sun Microsystems recently announced two new security updates.
#102917: StarOffice / StarSuite
This update addresses one vulnerability in StarOffice / StarSuite 6, 7 and 8 for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Due to a vulnerability in the way StarOffice / StarSuite handles RTF documents, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code on the system (CVE-2007-0245). [...]

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